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Project

Contrastive linguistics: applied and theoretical (CLAT).

CLAT stands for the organization of a cross-section workshop integrated in the 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-5) held at Leuven from 7 to 9 July 2008 (http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/iclc5). Both are the joint initiative of four research units of the Linguistics Department: - Functional, Cognitive and Descriptive Linguistics: English, Spanish and Typology - French, Italian and Comparative Linguistics - Quantitative Lexicology and Variation Linguistics - Dutch, German and Computational Linguistics. The contrastive study of language belongs to the approaches that are most relevant against the background of the tradition of Louvain. While the domain of contrastive linguistics uses to be associated with applied linguistics with a professional orientation (essentially foreign language teaching), the CLAT workshop stresses the theoretical and methodological dimension, in view of a better understanding of linguistic structures and functions. The chosen topics reflect the aim to do justice to the interaction between case-studies and quantification, on the one hand, and model theoretical typology, on the other: (i) syntax-discourse interface, (ii) comparative corpus research, (iii) intercultural pragmatics, (iv) microanalysis in typological perspective.
Date:15 Apr 2008 →  14 Mar 2009
Keywords:Contrastive linguistics
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of literary studies